The National Review, Volumen2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... hands of rectors , sweepers , grandmothers , and other persons who have no knowledge of business , and no idea except that their money now produces nothing , and ought and must be forced immediately to produce something . " I wish ...
... hands of rectors , sweepers , grandmothers , and other persons who have no knowledge of business , and no idea except that their money now produces nothing , and ought and must be forced immediately to produce something . " I wish ...
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... hand . However exalted may seem the praises which we have given to loose and unplanned reading , we are not saying that it is the sole ingredient of a good education . Besides this sort of education , which some boys will voluntarily ...
... hand . However exalted may seem the praises which we have given to loose and unplanned reading , we are not saying that it is the sole ingredient of a good education . Besides this sort of education , which some boys will voluntarily ...
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... hand . He mentioned to Lord Sheffield , as having had a preponderat- ing influence over him , the works of Father Parsons , who lived in Queen Elizabeth's time . But in all probability these were - 66 secondary persuasions ...
... hand . He mentioned to Lord Sheffield , as having had a preponderat- ing influence over him , the works of Father Parsons , who lived in Queen Elizabeth's time . But in all probability these were - 66 secondary persuasions ...
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... hand to sap his Roman Catholic belief . Pavilliard had a fair French library - not ill - stored in the recent publica- tions of that age - of which he allowed his pupil the continual It was as impossible to open any of them and not come ...
... hand to sap his Roman Catholic belief . Pavilliard had a fair French library - not ill - stored in the recent publica- tions of that age - of which he allowed his pupil the continual It was as impossible to open any of them and not come ...
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... hand , he wished those books to contain real and accurate information . He liked the firm earth of positive know- ledge . His fancy was not flexible enough for exquisite refine- ment , his imagination too slow for light and wandering ...
... hand , he wished those books to contain real and accurate information . He liked the firm earth of positive know- ledge . His fancy was not flexible enough for exquisite refine- ment , his imagination too slow for light and wandering ...
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Página 37 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 53 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 196 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 37 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 375 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 358 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Página 391 - Helen thy Bridgewater vie, And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face, and I a name.
Página 375 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Página 404 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Página 391 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...